Re: web-payments.org vs. payswarm.com

Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>We discussed a re-branding of this group's website on last weeks call:
>
>https://payswarm.com/minutes/2013-12-11#topic-2
>
>The primary issue is that people are seeing something called "PaySwarm"
>and are immediately jumping to the conclusion that it's a proprietary
>solution, even after we explain that it's a completely open, patent and
>royalty-free set of specifications that are published on the Web.
>
>The current proposal is to make web-payments.org the site where we
>place
>the content for this group. All content from payswarm.com will be
>migrated to the new site and re-branded to "Web Payments". All telecon
>minutes will be served from there, all specs will be served from there,
>etc.
>
>The code name for some of the specs that we're working on here will
>still be "PaySwarm", but that branding will be removed from all
>presentations in an effort to make the messaging about what we're doing
>here more clear. The message we want to send is "We are standardizing a
>variety of technologies to ease sending and receiving money via the
>Web". Some of those technologies include JSON-LD, PaySwarm, Ripple,
>Bitcoin, and ISO20022. Other technologies will be added as necessary.
>
>Thoughts? If there is no objection on the list, we'll start this
>transition later this month.
>
>-- manu

I think it's a good idea. I did not think it was a specification the first time I heard it. PaySwarm maybe sounds too much like a brand.


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Received on Monday, 16 December 2013 17:55:38 UTC